He Gets Me
I had a tough week last week. I won't bore you with the details. Let's just say I felt like my nine-year-old self the summer when all the mommies pulled their kids out of the public swimming pool because my siblings and I went in on a hot day to cool off. On that day we were the only kids who weren't white. And when we jumped in I guess the mothers thought it was wrong that their precious boys and girls be forced to share their space with people who they did not feel were their equal. Or something like that. I remember how it felt to be treated as less than. And that's how I felt last week when an incident happened in the pool. The details don't matter. There was a bully, he told me to my face he did what he did because I was a [...]
Arthur the King
I write books about rescue dogs and so I get a lot of dog stuff in my Facebook feed. I also post dog memes and photos of rescue dogs and so it’s not surprising that for the last month or so I’ve been getting sponsored ads about a movie that finally hit theaters yesterday. Mark Wahlberg has made some really smart choices in his career. Not all of them, but who has made 100% good choices in their personal or professional life? I sure haven’t. But Wahlberg has made more good ones than bad and Arthur the King is a great one. What’s not to like? If an underdog sports movie isn’t enough then adding a dog will make it better. And adding this exact dog made it perfect. Seriously, we need a special category at the Oscars for dogs and their trainers. I love underdog sports movies. I’ll even [...]
Never Somehow Becoming Forever.
We saw the house in September of 2016. It was a horrible house buying experience including identity theft, having to go through two different lenders but it was so complicated it's too exhausting to share all the horrible details. And I won't even start on the movers and how that turned into a waste of money and a loss of all of the special items and the breakage of so much. And then freelance workers the moving company hired to move our good from the truck to the house didn't show up. Never move from sunny Hawaii to gloomy Oshkosh in March when you have a level ten headache and are suicidal. Man, that was bad timing. Today marks seven years of living in Oshkosh. We decided to book two nights at a hotel because I did not know when things would arrive. I was so tired of spending money [...]
Epic Exchanges
I have done quite a number of podcasts about dogs, dogs and depression, moving to a new place and starting over as a senior, gardening, more dogs, and a wide variety of topics. I can [...]
There is a Difference
Yesterday I went to the grocery store and a woman was there with her dog. Now this dog wasn't just an under dressed service dog with an owner who forgot to put on his vest. [...]
Not Like the Others
I even have a theme song that runs through my mind most days. One of these things is not like the other one of these things doesn’t belong. Today wasn’t one of those days. I [...]